William Inge Quotes
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
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With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
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I watch a lot of football.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
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I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.
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Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?
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How do you ever hold on to anybody?
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What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
